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Oonline has been "unavailable" all day... I guess it was their only defence against Jonathan's art history lessons.

Socks and sunglasses.. why didn't Michelangelo think of that?

I am never clicking on a technology thread again. Even with forefingers.

Gulch,, I always knew that beneath your overriding anxieties for the state of the Union there was a sense of proportion. To conflate the various evils that have beset civilization into a single channel such as this issue, seems to me disproportionate. You already have a limited form of medicare, and expanding it will not destroy your great nation. Nothing can do that except maybe, if I may quote Roosevelt, "fear itself."

Also, people who wear sunglasses indoors who do not have serious eye problems. Something must be done about them.

Hey, I didn't know she was related to my idol Lucy Maud|! Now I am even more a fan. The other Cassie might be a member of the Lynx.. you never know.

As you know, lower body development is most important in the playing of hockey and often concentrates on your, er, area of interest.

lol no...but we won't tell Bob that.

Someone should tell aspiring Dear Aynie Kevin Delaney that Leading Men can be found at any Starbucks or unemployment office. It is the character actors who score the steady work.

Ah, yes, attack a respectable widow for speaking her mind...

Why just since slavery? Why just America? Obviously, socialized medicine is the worst thing ever to happen to the human race since the Black Death. Dr Carson should go back to practicing neurosurgery, preferably upon himself.

a little more collectedly) At 18 I thought I knew everything I needed to know about myself, it was the world and other people I wanted to learn about. Trying to introspect about things which meant nothing in my life experience at that age, was a pretty depressing experience.Also, it was scary to know that I should be an intellectually complete adult with a main life purpose. And be feeling joy about it all the time. Or else I was not doing it right.

I was surprised to hear that Alice Munro has got the Nobel prize for literature. One, I did not think it was North America's turn for the prize, and two, I did not think that she was internationally read. I have read her since she first started writing... if we have a Core Curriculum here I guess she is part of it, since both my sons had to read Lives of Girls and Women in school, and did not complain too much about it, at least in my presence. Her mastery of the short story form, her seemingly effortless bridge between reality and the page, there is something about it remote and unique, in the way I think of Mozart. The Nobels are all politics of course, and I think Margaret Laurence should have been the first Canadian woman novelist honoured. And don't even get me started on the men.

How interesting the way you structure your most important points here. Maybe I should not just react off post but I do not see how, at 6 or 16 or 26, to want things to be all about thinking and expect others to want it too, is not wanting and maybe expecting, life to shape itself to "me and the way I think" oh, I never wanted to learn about myself,I thought I knew it all... had to learn anyway, waste of time if you ask me.

Just another small footnote, re "shifty eyed lice" most lice do not in fact have eyes,and metaphorically speaking they would have them anyway, would they?

"Liar of thousand lies See them within his eyes Smite him to true pintsize Fraudulent bastard!" As a conscientious reporter on Randsites I include this excerpt from Forum4, which has devolved unto a repository of Objectivist creativity , especially of Brian Faulkner referenced above. Mr Faulkner's poetry alternates between ecstatic lifeworship and righteous anger, of which the above is a recent example, and he demonstrates a remarkable consistency in form and imagery, without greatly varying his theme. A slight pedantic quibble which in no way quarrels with poetic license: As it is clear from frequent references that Mr. Obama is your referent,technically he is not a bastard, as evidence is incontrovertible that he was born in wedlock. If this was simply an idiomatic addition, it may be an intriquing new direction in the generally highminded style of the author.

Women do have a kind of unfair advantage in pro sports. When they retire they are still young and unconcussed enough to make good sportscasters, retaining most of their knowledge of the game and the ability to learn onair skills..And they could still work the cleavage, if they were not too Canadian and Respectable! Cassie Campbell et al, salutate!

A lot of the Common Core is probably already inside you, Brant. Too late not to care.

Proposed Mandatory Minnesota Coach Mantra: Alright men! Let's get out there and PLAY LIKE GIRLS! F**#**YEAH!

Go Lynx. The Wild do not suck, not really bad anyway.. the season is young. Hee, hee. Anonymous] Toronto ML Conference Leaders

No, Derek, you had the right impression. BubbleMan defines his own terms and talks essentially to himself.And very well too.

Fortresses were built as places of safety from which to withstand attack; few were ever used primarily as prisons. Many served as prisons of course, in which some notable poetry was composed.

Well, a side bonus of discovering the unity of Rand's philosophy, for many is a confirmation of previous bias against any art they don't like and/or understand. Remember Victor Pross? And he was an artist himself, always whining that other, more successful artists did not know their trade.

Brant, Doesn't every state require persons under sixteen to attend the prisons , or house arrest/ home schooling? Where in the Constitution does it say children should be universally constrained in this way? Maybe there should be another Liberty Amendment about this.

??? If Mike's agenda here was cutting down Beck, it was way too subtle for me to notice. It looked to me like a discussion about public education and the American dislike of uniformity.